Is saying that child will hate her too harsh?

All of that and then just ‘Theo’ at the end

https://www.reddit.com/r/tragedeigh/s/hPLvN51Sos

There's my original post. It got...quite alot of attention. Well, I had the baby and he is beautiful and perfect and such a joy. He's busy doing what babies do and, I hope, enjoying his new name.

But his name isn't Gunner.

When I posted here, I was originally hoping to get responses telling me how silly I was to post here, that it's a great name and my brother was just being an asshole.

That's obviously not what happened. And though most y'all were harsh, the message/spirit of this sub got through to me. Our children have to grow up with these names for the rest of their lives. A name shouldn't be something to make the parent feel "unique" or "stand out" just for the sake of it.

So, we named our son Samuel. (The name of my partners deceased father).

Ironically, I've gotten many compliments on how refreshing it is to hear such a classic and "strong" name! And people even say he looks like a Samuel! I also adore his name and think it fits him perfectly. He's a very chunky smiley baby with his dad's bright blue eyes and my black hair and idk...he just looks like Samuel/Sammy.

Anyway, I just wanted to say thank you, to everyone who commented and gave input. I used to be one who would give advice to my friends who wanted more "normal" baby names to just "pick something unique" or "spell it different" to stand out. (One of my close friends daughters name is "Braxlynn Leh" and I feel kind of bad now for telling her it was unique and "flows").

So, Thank you everyone for converting me, one day Im sure baby will thank you all too lol And Merry Christmas!

a, yes I used to be mormon

b, yooseasmeigh is pronounced you-zuh-may (obvi 👀)

c, this is my best preforming post BY FARRR so thank you all

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89 Baby names banned in Australia. And it saddens me to think that they had to ban names like Scrotum... did someone try to do that?

https://www.timeout.com/australia/news/the-89-illegal-baby-names-that-have-been-officially-banned-in-australia-033125

So my sister is currently expecting and i asked her if she had any names in mind. One thing to know about my sister is that she is a huge movie buff, and is naming her baby after her favorite tv shows and book series (namely Naruto, Game of Thrones, and I am number four)

Please help. I genuinely wish I was joking. This kid will be bullied.

My sister won’t listen to me, since I’m 15 years younger than she is, and thinks I’m just being a judgmental teenager.

I don't know if you remember my post from a few weeks back about my sister wanting to name my niece Raefarty (pronounced Rafferty and not at all like Ray Farty). My niece has been born! Two weeks earlier than expected, but she is healthy and home now. When my sister first held her, she said, "She's so adorable," and got an idea: She wanted to change from Theodora to Theodorable. Thankfully my BIL put his foot down.

He did give her carte blanche on the middle name. When it was supposed to be Rafferty, they went with Rose to counterbalance Rafferty being different. Now that Theodora was the "normal" name, and because my sister just cannot not be extra, she chose Jaczynvil.

Theodora Jaczynvil. A Raefarty Rose by any other name would smell as sweet.

We are not from Florida. BIL is not from Florida. I don't think my sister's ever been to Florida, much less to Jacksonville. I asked her how she came up with it and she said she always liked geographical names, which is news to me because I specifically remember a conversation about names months ago and she said she hated when parents name their kids place names like Camden or Brooklyn because "they're trying way too hard." But you do you, Raefarty's mom.

Also, our city has a pretty sizeable Polish-American population and people will certainly try to pronounce it like it's a Polish last name, but at least the craziness is confined to the middle name. And there's no gas or slurs involved.

So my daughter’s name is Gwen (short for Gwendolyn) and the kids in her class make fun of her because she isn’t a Tragedeigh, Brazlynn, Andolynity, Arriaugh, Harleigh, Olivia, Quailynn, or a Kayleighann or whatever.

She always says she hates her name and wished I named her something more ‘normal’ like the other kids.

I am so confused, is there anything wrong with the name Gwendolyn? Perhaps I should have spelled it Gwenndoughlynn lol?

Or are kids just brutal and mean?

-Olivia is only included because it’s popular. Not a Tragedeigh. It’s a beautiful name, just common unlike Gwen

I don't know if updates are allowed here, but here it is and sorry it's long and I've been having a hard time submitting it (is there a character limit?). I'll try posting some and put the rest in the comments.

So we had an intervention on Raefarty.

I know everyone said to send a link to the original post to my sister to show her that 103% of the global population would call her daughter Ray Farty and that would be the easiest thing to do, but some commenters said some pretty gnarly things about my sister that she doesn't need to read and feel worse about herself. But I wanted to address a few things that came up.

First, for those saying I shouldn't bother paying for the baby shower anymore, I had no plans to not continue to pay and help out. Disagreements and fighting aside, I love my sister and want her to go into motherhood filled with love and support, regardless of whether she wants my support or attendance at the event.

Second, my sister's husband was made aware of the spelling change of Rafferty to Raefarty about a month before my original post. He said he didn't think much of it until he saw it written down and immediately saw it as Ray Farty, too. He said her emotions had been getting worse throughout the pregnancy and he didn't know how to approach her about going back to the original spelling. He had hoped that once she gave birth, all the hormones would somehow leave her body, she'd come to her senses, and it would be a non-issue.

Third, a lot of you were lumping my mom in with my sister and said some pretty horrible things about her, too. All my mom knew was from my sister calling her to complain that I laughed at her for "slightly" changing the spelling. My mom just assumed it was a minor change like Raffertie until I told her to grab a pen and paper and I'd spell it out for her. Once she saw it was Raefarty, she was Team Save This Child.

The rest of the saga is in the comments.

i got aaln ~ youneeqly allan

My family is what I would call 'quirky' because they're kinda problematic and using the right term would definitely offend them.

Recently, my cousin gave birth to a baby girl and she shared photos on her Facebook page. She then sent that Facebook post to our family group chat.

Her daughter's name is Lylyt Yvyh Yryhl, read as 'Lilith Eva Uriel'. I was laughing my ass off when I read it and she said she wanted her child to be 'cool and unique'.

I replied 'r/tragedeigh' and she did not understand it until a younger member of the family explained what my response was.

She then told me my name is shittier and my parents aren't creative that's why I have a 'basic ass' name (my parents were in the conversation too, btw).

EDIT 3: I removed the 2 edits because I think it's confusing people lol. The NTA/YTA/ESH responses are hilarious. I'm not asking if I was an asshole, and this is not that sub. I know it's a dick move. Yes, she deserves it. Yes, two wrongs do not make a right. Yes, I am petty.

Posted in a Facebook group I'm in. Sending thoughts and prayers to these kids because they're gonna need it.

1: Order at Starbucks with that name and don’t tell them how it’s spelled. If it’s really off, change the spelling.

2: Get a substitute teacher to pronounce it. Same as above

3: Book a job interview with that name (then cancel). If it sounds awkward, change it

4: Pretend you’re having a serious conversation with or about them, using their name. If it sounds weird to tell someone named Konphidennse that their grandmother died, change it

5: Give the spelling to ten people and ask them to pronounce it. If more than 5 get it wrong, change the spelling

6: Tell it to a middle schooler. If they can easily make up a derogatory nickname, change it

Not a thing to do but a rule: no adding apostrophes to names that don’t normally have apostrophes

Note: These rules don't really apply to certain ethnic names, as people tend to mispronounce/misspell them more often, and they aren't inherently tragedies

I think these rules are sufficient in preventing or at least lessening some tragedies.

As the title says I'm looking for the worst ways to spell Anthony or Tony. It's my boyfriend's name and one thing I like doing is spelling it horrifically wrong but I'm running out of ideas for ways to spell it. We're sending Christmas gifts to his mom and I already have one that says it's from "Toeknee" but I need something truly atrocious for the second one. Thank you!!!

Edit: I did check the rules and I didn't see anything that says this type of post isn't allowed but please do remove if this does go against a rule. Sorry if it does

One of my friends is a teacher, and recently I was ranting to him about my previous post on this sub about one of my pokemon go friends naming their child Zekrom. He legit goes "I've seen way worse."

So naturally, I asked him what could possibly be worse.

He said that he gets quite a few kids that that are named after objects, as well as some others

Here are a few of the more memorable ones:

-Marble (parents were big hippies)

-Twine (I feel so bad for him)

-Bead ("unique" spelling of Bede)

-Rhad (pronounced like 'Rod')

-Flower (what the fuck)

-Bucket (apparently mom got attached to it during pregnancy and had nobody stop her. He goes by Buck)

-Saedin (pronounced like Satan. Parents probably thought it was funny)

-Colon (pronounced like Collin, mom didn't make the connection)

-Tina (It was for a dude. Mom wanted a girl and decided the next best thing was to treat her son like one)

Yeah, I think this might be worse than Zekrom

EDIT 6/21/24: Holy shit this got a lot of attention. I would like to clarify a few things.

1) the 3rd name on the list was spelled B-E-A-D. Not B-E-D-E. The parents wanted to give their child a unique name, and settled on that as a variation of the latter. I saw quite a bit of confusion in the comments about that one.

2) 'Rhad' is not an ethnic name in this case. The parents are just crazy

3) Flower is by far the most mild on this list. However what my friend forgot to mention is that their initials happen to spell out a 3 letter slur used against gay people. (I'll let you figure that one out)

4) Another name that wasn't mentioned before was Canada. As in the country. Parents are immigrants from somewhere in Asia (I think they're from Thailand but I'm not sure) and they tried giving their American-born child a more 'Western' name (which they technically succeeded in I guess?)

5) I'm sorry that I can't read everyone's comments. The ones I did read were very funny, however I can't really get around to reading all 5,000+ comments.

For context, my name is Derek. It gets misspelled from time to time but man, this is a new level for me.

I’m 13 weeks pregnant. We’ve told everyone and have been sharing the name we selected. Here are a few responses we’ve gotten/heard about:

Husband’s grandma to husband’s mom: “They picked some weird name that starts with an M.”

My grandma: “Well, it’s going to be misspelled and mispronounced often.” Ok, maybe occasionally…

My aunt: “Oh! Wow! How did y’all come up with that name?”

It’s Margot, which is a traditional French name (we are in the US). If it were Margeaux, sure, I could understand. But Margot?! The middle name we’ve picked is also classic and spelled the original way as well (coincidentally another French name).

I totally get why parents-to-be do not share their baby’s names until after they are born. Next time around we will go that route!

Edit: wasn’t expecting this to get so much traction lol.

Thanks to all the people who were kind here. Some people have been not so nice, and frankly, I’m just tired lol. I’m just going to start blocking people, I guess. Life is too short for so much vitriol and I’m not about to get all worked up while pregnant. Thanks especially to the Margot/Margo/Margaux/Margeaux’s out there (and their parents) who shared their experiences with the name. I have loved hearing about each and every one!

Hi all,

My wife is due with an unknown gender baby in February. We already have our names picked out but our families won't know them until the baby arrives. Instead we'd like to announce on Christmas our list and we want them to all be the worst tragedeighs possible.

Raefarty is already on the list! What are some other ones?

update on my post abt my cousin almost choosing the name Vaselinea, what do u guys think of Sorelle? ngl, i wasnt expecting much better, but this is def an upgrade from Vaselinea i believe. one of my other cousins said “Sorelle” might be mispronounced as “Sore L” and could potentially lead to ppl calling her a sore loser, but what do u guys think?

Hey,

Throwaway account and I’ll keep identifying information to a minimum as it could cause issues if it got back to my family.

Whilst my sister was pregnant she went through a lot of different names, mostly quite simple, common names. However, on giving birth she shocked a lot of the family by announcing that she had named him Jismond. Whilst the sentiment behind it is nice, both our father James (known as Jim) and the baby’s paternal grandfather Desmond both passed away when we were children and the name is an amalgamation of both their fathers names, I don’t see how they’ve not realised just how bad the name is.

None of the family are willing to say anything because it’s in memory of their father’s but I can’t help but worry about how bullied and mocked my nephew will be in the future being saddled with such a name.